Wife of Lagos State Governor flags off National Immunization Week 2025, begins May 3

The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-olu, has flagged off the National Immunization Week in Lagos with a call on parents to avail their children from age zero to five years of polio vaccines between May 3 and May 6.
At the kickoff ceremony at the Lagos House, Alausa, Dr Sanwo-olu said the state government remains committed to ensuring no child in Lagos dies of any disease that can be prevented by immunization.
She urged Community and religious leaders, as well as the Media, to champion the course of the advocacy to correct all misinformation and myths about vaccines, noting that it is safe.
The Chief of the UNICEF Field Office for Southwest Nigeria, Ms. Celine Lafoucriere, maintained that over two million children in Nigeria are still not immunized which poses threats to their well-being and that of others in their communities, hence the need for aggressive awareness to reduce Polio to ground zero, noting that oral polio vaccine prevents over twenty-four million cases of paralysis.
On his part, Director of Health Education and Information, Lagos State Health District 1, Mr Olawole Abiola, appealed to parents especially mothers to ensure their children take the full doses of immunization saying one-off vaccination is not good enough, with emphasis that the many myths around vaccines are not true and children should not be deprived of their fundamental human rights.
Reports say that a commemorative immunization walk was done from the office of the First Lady at Alausa to Ikeja, with health workers displaying placards with the immunization week theme: Immunization for all is humanly possible, for every child: complete vaccination.